Word is the Avs won’t practice Friday, so today might have been it for the boys this season at their Centennial complex. Avs need to finish 2-0 to have any chance of making the playoffs. They also need San Jose to finish 0-2 and Dallas to gain no more than two points in its last two games.

That’s per the folks at Sports Club Stats, who have this breakdown of the Avs’ remaining playoff chance. Basically, the Avs have to win in reg. or OT in their last two games and hope LA Kings can beat San Jose in regulation of their last two meetings. Oh, and Dallas has to lose one of their last two at least too. Simple.

Now I finally know what everyone meant who’d been saying to me on Twitter “So you’re telling me there’s a chance?”

– Big story running in tomorrow’s paper about Milan Hejduk. He is one of two active players remaining who was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques. Can you name the other?

– Duncan Siemens, even though he’s playing for Lake Erie right now, can still go back to junior next season. Siemens has played one game for the Monsters so far, with two penalty minutes and a minus-1.

– I can almost guarantee Gabriel Landeskog will win the Calder Trophy, based on some unofficial polling I’ve done around the league’s hockey writers. He seems the favorite to get the majority of first-place votes.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.